On the 30th and 31st of January, Kinlochleven was given a wonderful surprise. After being the first Scottish school Muggle Quidditch team, they caught the eye of the St. Andrews University Quidditch Team members and were invited to watch their Quiditch Scottish University Cup final, which was between themselves, Stirling University and Edinburgh University. This was a great honour for Kinlochleven High School as this was their first step into the Quidditch sporting world, the team members that were invited being able to pick up some “tricks of the trade” whilst watching the matches. One pupil, Stewart Cameron (S4), was ecstatic about going. “I have always wanted to go to St. Andrews and see the place but to go with the school to see one of their Quidditch matches is absolutely amazing!”

Thanks to the school's fundraising social enterprise “Kinlochlovin’” they could go for the weekend to St. Andrews and watch the matches. One of our correspondents, Connor Maclean (S1), went with them on the trip to report on how it all went. “The match between Stirling and Edinburgh was dominated by Edinburgh as their chasers zoomed about the pitch scoring like crazy. In the second match, St. Andrews vs. Stirling, the game was very tense. We almost got run over by the snitch!”

After the matches, all the teams, the Kinlochleven Midges included, stood by the goals and had a picture taken, which can be seen above. More photos are on the Kinlochleven Midges Facebook page.

We are looking forward to seeing the Midges in the World Final very soon in the future!